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The first chap ter of Alpha Kappa Alpha (AKA) organized in Tulsa in 1931 when the charter was approved for the Alpha Chi Omega chapter. The graduate Alpha Upsilon Omega chapter also began in 1931 on the Langston University campus. In 1939, the undergraduate Alpha Zeta chapter formed at Langston. These organizations hosted social, community, and educational activities locally. They regularly participated in the Delta Sigma Theta’s Jabberwock variety show. The Tulsa chapter became known for holding a pre-Thanksgiving Vesper Service that hundreds attended yearly. For many years, the women of AKA mentored Tulsa high school students and provided scholarships. Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher was in the sorority, as was Nancy Davis, the first African Ameri can female to earn a graduate degree from Oklahoma State University (OSU).
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Black Greek Letter Organizations
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I totally missed it, and I’m usually good at picking up on these things. It literally went right by me, unnoticed. I actually didn’t even know it was a thing. I had heard the phrase but had a different idea about it. But now I know. And I’m no better for knowing.
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You probably woke that fateful morning, assuming everything would probably run along on the accustomed track. Never dreaming – or nightmaring – that particular day would be so much different than you expected.
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Where do you go for love? You go to Italy, the country of love or to Ro-ma’s Italian Restaurant in Wewoka. Anyhow, that’s where eight Red Hatters went. Glenda Stinson and Lynn Marquis were hostesses with the table decorated with a red streamer down the middle with red supported by red balloon weighs on each side. They were filled with red stick hearts. And of course, red valentine candy consisting of Snickers and pink and red M & Ms. One of the packages of M & Ms had Red Hats written on it.
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